Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 21

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Tia didn’t wait for Audrey to reply.

She spoke with a nagging tone, “Audrey, please persuade your grandfather. We really don’t want to ruin his reputation, and yours, by bringing this onto the show. He’s a university professor, isn’t he? Won’t his reputation as an educator be tarnished if this blows up?”

Audrey’s face darkened, “What do you want?”

“I heard professors are given houses by the university. Ask your grandfather to transfer a house to your brother Adam. If not, buy him a villa in Sheysea and a car worth half a million dollars. The car isn’t our demand. It’s what the bride’s family wants.”

Tia continued, “They’re also asking for a wedding gift of 660 thousand dollars. Your mother was your grandfather’s only child. Now that she’s gone, he only has Adam.

your grandfather owns should belong to Adam. If he’s holding onto his wealth so Adam doesn’t inherit what’s rightfully his, your

in a calm voice, “You tortured my birth mother to death! If Mr. Lambert helps you, she will

Yeomans, Audrey’s biological father. He

think I can’t see that you’re keeping Mr. Lambert from seeing Adam so you can monopolize the house

deposit from Jolin Watson’s family. But your sister

Claude, promising to bring Audrey back to bear his children. If you kill her, we’ll have to

to take. If I want her dead, she has no right to live.

now. If he doesn’t transfer the house to Adam, send us the money, and buy him the car, I’ll

when he beat her and her mother in the cellar, a stark contrast to the usual façade of kindness he showed

others.